Warslow / Wereslei

There is an entry for Warslow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK0858/warslow/] [accessed 29 July 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox (1877) notes that, when Youlgreave church installed the unique font originally from Elton in 1838, "the old font of Youlgreave was placed behing the 'William IV' [a public house?] in the village, but was afterwards allowed to be taken away to Warslow Church, Staffordshire, whose incumbent was Mr. Pidcock, a son of the former Vicar." The entry for this township in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 7, 1996) notes: "There may have been a chapel at Warslow by the 13th century, on the evidence of the font in the present church, and part of the shaft and base of a late medieval cross survives in the churchyard on the south side of the church. A chapel at Warslow was mentioned in 1524, and its dedication to St. Katharine was recorded in 1533. [...] The present church of ST. LAWRENCE at Warslow, so called by 1850, [...] dates from 1820. Its predecessor was a narrow building, 44 ft. long and 20 ft. wide, which dated at least in part from the earlier 17th century [...] The font dates from the 13th century. Removed from the church at an unknown date, it was reinstated in 1937." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK0863558640] notes: "Parish Church. 1820 with additions of 1908 [...] Romanesque font; roughly circular bowl with 4 roughly moulded strips attached". The font consists of a tub-shaped basin decorated with thick piping or columns on the outside [they are very worn and damaged], raised on a rooughly quadrangular pedestal base that is probably not the original. The upper basin rim has a notch that is consistent with its use as trough or similar, and it also has a new-stone insert repair.